Content
85%Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
A well-structured instruction skill: actionable template, worked example, and review checklist drive high actionability and workflow clarity, with clean one-level progressive disclosure. The only soft spot is conciseness, where ADR background is duplicated between the spine and the reference file.
Suggestions
Trim the inline ADR field mapping in 'The record fields' section to a one-line pointer, since references/adr-background.md already carries the full mapping and its rationale.
De-duplicate the Nygard immutability quote, which currently appears in both Rule 4 and the anti-patterns table — keep it in one place and cross-reference.
Consider moving the ADR provenance sentences in Rule 1, Rule 2, and Rule 3 ('This follows the ADR specificity convention', 'This is the ADR Context field taken literally') into the background reference to reduce repetition in the spine.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The ~230-line body is information-dense and mostly earns its tokens, but ADR provenance and field-to-ADR mapping are restated inline while also living in references/adr-background.md, and the immutability point recurs across Rule 4 and the anti-patterns table — tightening this redundancy would lift it to a 3. | 2 / 3 |
Actionability | Provides a copy-paste markdown Template, a filled worked example, a nine-line review checklist, and an anti-patterns table with explicit fixes — concrete and executable guidance rather than vague direction. | 3 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | The four rules give a clear sequence (one recommendation → observed signal → mandatory flip conditions → supersede not edit) with a validation checkpoint ('When no admissible signal exists, do not write a record') and a review checklist that acts as a feedback loop for the draft record. | 3 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | SKILL.md is an overview with two well-signaled, one-level-deep references (references/adr-background.md and references/worked-example.md), both real files, with the ADR provenance and full worked example appropriately split out of the spine. | 3 / 3 |
Total | 11 / 12 Passed |